Today on the WSWS

New Today -- 14 March 2016

Perspective

The Trump campaign: A new stage in the crisis of American democracy

With the eruption of violence inside and outside rallies of billionaire Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, American politics has reached a turning point.

News & Analysis

Republican frontrunner Trump steps up attacks on demonstrators

Donald Trump called on protestors to be "thrown into a jail," and offered to pay the legal fees of a supporter who punched, then threatened to kill, a protestor.

Obama backs attack on encrypted communication

UK bill hands vast surveillance powers to police and intelligence agencies

China: Thousands of coal miners protest over unpaid wages

Workers, students march against French labor law reform

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn deletes criticisms of EU from his web site

Die Zeit campaigns for military intervention in Libya

US-trained Chechen ISIS commander Abu Omar al-Shishani survives US assassination strike

Judge Rhodes threatens shutdown of Detroit Public Schools

Detroit teacher: "Children are made into dollar signs"

Australian primary teachers resign in protest at standardised, assessment-based education

California Faculty Association prepares to sell out CSU workers

UAW sanctions mass layoffs by farm equipment giant John Deere

Australia: Despite deaths, no youth mental facility in Brisbane

Mehring Books

The return of German militarism and the threat of World War III

Arts Review

Flight and persecutionyesterday and today (The Diary of Anne Frank and Meteorstrae)

Socialist Equality Party

Sri Lankan SEP to hold Jaffna public meeting on imperialist war and Tamil nationalism